Hook and eye.



No. 669,789 Patented Mar. l2, I90l.

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HOOK AND EYE.

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UNIT D STATES PATENT UFFICE.

EDWIN WRIGHT GROESCHEL, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.-

HOOK AND EYE.

EZEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 669,789, dated March 12, 1901.

Application filed September 4, 1900. Serial No. 28,905. the model.)

To all uflwm it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN WRIGHT Gnos- SCHEL, a citizen of the United States, residing in Jersey City, county of Hudson, and Stale of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hooks and Eyes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the ac companying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to hooks and eyes; and it h as reference particularly to hooks and eyes of substantially the construction of that described and claimed in my copending application for United States Letters Patent filed August 29, 1900, and bearing the Serial No. 28,389.

Besides forming the tongue of the hook member of the device with a rebend or other projection which extends forwardly from a certain loop forming an elevation therein that approximately contacts with the tip of the bill, thus producing a completely-inclosed seat or seating-space in the device for the loop portion of the eye member out of which the latter is incapable of being moved except by way of its entrance to said seat, I propose to so shape that portion of said hook member which constitutes its tongue that the desirable free and unhampered vertical movement of said tongue is not only secured, but provision is thereby made whereby the entire book can be materially flattened or reduced to the minimum thickness, so that it will produce no appreciable elevation in such portion of the garment as may be extended over it.

The invention is fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure l is atop plan view of myimproved hook. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3 is a front view of said hook, a portion being removed. Fig. 4 is a sectional view of a por-- tion of ahook of slightly-modified form. Fig. 5 is a plan of the tongue of the hook shown in Fig. 4E, and Fig. 6 is a plan of a tongue involving another modification.

Said hook member consists of preferably a single piece of wire bent in such form as to produce the shanks a a, the bill I), and the eyelets c c, the portion of the. wire forming one of which, 0, terminates in a tongue d, while the portion 0 of the wire which forms the other terminates in an extension 6, which is crossed over the tongue, by preference, so as to impart to the hook rigidity.

In the tongue I form a loop f, which is of such shape and is so disposed that thereby is produced an elevation in the tongue which approximately contacts with the tip of the bill, which, being rearwardly inclined, forms with said elevation a seat or seatingspaco g for the reception of the loop of the eye member. From the loop f extends forwardly approximately to the base of the bill a projection 72, consisting of a rebend in the wire, such rebend havingits plane horizontally disposed, for a reason hereinafter explained. As will be manifest, this projection acts to positively prevent the loop of the eye member from being worked back out of its seat 9 under the tongue.

In forming the tongue so as to produce therein the elements above referred to it may be made to extend first straight toward the base of the bill, as at t', then bent back upon itself, as already described, to form the projection h, then bent up and back again to produce the elevation or loop f, its extremity terminating over the body portion of the tongue, (see Fig. 2,) or it may be bent to produce first the elevation or loop f and then the projection h, in which case its end will prefer ably terminate in the projection. (See Fig.

4.) The latter construction is the preferred one, because therein the extremity of the tongue is sheathed, and so there is no possibility of its getting caught in the fabric of the garment to which the device is attached. Furthermore, a perfectly unobstructed incline is thereby afforded in the elevation or loop f, as at J, whereon the loop of the eye member may wipe asit is drawn by the wearer toward the bill end of the hook in "finding its seat in the hook; but both of these advantages may besecured in the former construction by disposing the tip of the tongue beside the body portion thereof, as at It. (See Fig. 6.)

Much importance is attached by me to the horizontal disposition of the projection h.

This arrangement, while it alters in no degree the size of the seating-space g, renders it possible to flatien,as it were, the whole hook, for it remains no longer necessary, as in the case where said projection is arranged in a vertical plane, to extend the bill and the loop or elevation so high in the effort to preserve the seat at its proper size. Thus Where the garment is extended over the hook, concealing the same, no appreciable elevation is formed therein by said hook, as would particularly be the case otherwise were the goods of light quality. In short, a practically fiat hook is provided.

It is to be observed that the projection is slightly elevated above the plane of the shanks a a. The object of this is to remove the tongue from contact with the garment, so thatits perfect freedom of vertical movement r is preserved and the easy engagement of the hook and eye not in the least interfered with.

Having thus fully described myinvention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. A hook for a hook and eye consisting of the eyelets, bill and spaced shanks, and a tongue disposed between said shanks, said tongue having a loop forming an elevation approximately contacting with the tip of the bill and also having a projection extending forwardly from said loop, and said projection consisting of a rebend whose plane is horizontal, substantially as described.

2. A hook for a hook and eye consisting of the eyelets, bill and spaced shanks, and a tongue disposed between said shanks, said tongue having a loop forming an elevation approximately contacting with the tip of the bill and also having a projection extending forwardly from said loop, the tip of said tongue being disposed between said shanks, and said projection consisting of a rebend whose plane is horizontal, substantially as described.

3. A hook fora hook and eye consisting of the eyelets, bill and spaced shanks, and a tongue disposed between said shanks, said tongue having a loop forming an elevation approximately contacting with the tip of the bill and also having a projection extending forwardly from said loop, and said projection consisting of a rebend whose plane is horizontal and which is elevated above that of the shanks, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 27th day of August, 1900.

ED WIN WRIGHT GROESCHEL.

Witnesses:

JOHN W. STEWARD, ALFRED GARTNER. 

